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Comment by Falcyth

Having recently acquired the T5 4pc bonus, I did some preliminary testing/investigating of the proc in Blasted Lands. A few things I was curious about were a) does the energy savings stack with Relentless Strikes, b) what's the proc rate, c) is there an internal cooldown to control frequency of procs, and d) will both white attacks and yellow attacks trigger the proc.

From just a few minutes of beating on Servants, I found that:a) Yes, these two effects do "stack". I was able to perform a 5pt Eviscerate with less than 25 energy and immediately receive 25 energy from Relentless Strikes. In this scenario, I built up 5 cp and then waited for a Coup de Grace proc with a full energy bar. I then burned down my energy by spamming Hemo, then Eviscerate when I was low on energy. (melee strikes removed for brevity).

1/4 10:01:11.379 You hit Servant of Razelikh for 586.1/4 10:01:11.379 You hit Servant of Razelikh for 299.1/4 10:01:12.175 Servant of Razelikh hits you for 88.1/4 10:01:12.379 You gain Coup de Grace.1/4 10:01:16.504 Your Hemorrhage hits Servant of Razelikh for 699.1/4 10:01:16.519 You gain 10 Energy from Power of the Sun King.1/4 10:01:17.769 Your Hemorrhage hits Servant of Razelikh for 749.1/4 10:01:18.644 Your Hemorrhage hits Servant of Razelikh for 690.1/4 10:01:19.722 Your Hemorrhage hits Servant of Razelikh for 674.1/4 10:01:21.644 Coup de Grace fades from you.1/4 10:01:21.644 Your Eviscerate crits Servant of Razelikh for 3397.1/4 10:01:21.644 You gain 25 Energy from Relentless Strikes Effect.1/4 10:01:22.144 You hit Servant of Razelikh for 561.1/4 10:01:22.144 Servant of Razelikh hits you for 87.1/4 10:01:23.144 You hit Servant of Razelikh for 269.1/4 10:01:24.144 Servant of Razelikh misses you.1/4 10:01:24.738 You hit Servant of Razelikh for 632.1/4 10:01:24.957 You crit Servant of Razelikh for 605.1/4 10:01:25.754 You gain Coup de Grace.

b) not enough testing yet to determine the proc rate.

c) If there is an internal cooldown it's not very long, from the above log snippet I got very fortunate and proc'd the Coup de Grace buff 13.5s apart. I have not seen a case yet where Coup de Grace refreshed the duration of an existing Coup de Grace buff, but this may be due to insufficient testing.

d) From the log snippet, I can conclude that white attacks can cause a proc, but due to the timing of attacks and the delay in the notification of the buff, I can't definitely conclude one way or the other regarding yellow attacks from my current testing. e.g.

1/4 10:04:04.896 You crit Servant of Razelikh for 1156.1/4 10:04:05.099 You crit Servant of Razelikh for 685.1/4 10:04:05.303 Your Hemorrhage crits Servant of Razelikh for 1659.1/4 10:04:05.521 You gain Coup de Grace.

So, although the hemo strike is the last attack before the buff notification, it could just be the delay from the buff proc'ing on one of the two prior melee white attacks. Testing with only a main hand weapon and a /cast Hemorrhage /stopattack macro might help isolate this behavior.

Comment by DejwLazi

This was a pretty nice set bonus, but during BC when I was a Mutilate Rogue, this thing usually messed up my rotation, when it procced. Still, getting an energy free Envenom was pretty nice.